Playing Ambient Guitar
When you are a beginner at playing the ambient guitar it might seem at first that you are never going to get any good at it. The very nature of the ambient guitar style is sometimes more indistinct than other styles. There can be times when the tones are so meshed with effects and the use of things like Strymon pedals that it can be hard to do basic things like define individual notes and hear the rhythm. But actually, you can get closer to playing some great guitar tones sooner than you might think when you have a basic understanding of playing technique and effect units. Play might seem random but it is not The important thing when you are learning to play ambient guitar is not to get caught up in the mistaken belief that the sound is random because it is not. You should have a plan for the notes you are playing to complement the chord progression in each song. When you keep that in mind tones fall into three aspects, size, layering and decay. Different pedals, gamechang...